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Friday 22 May 2015

Ireland: What will be the result of the referendum on Gay marriage?

In a few hours, more than 3 million people in Ireland will be asked if they want the constitution of the country to be changed to allow gay marriage. Ireland will reportedly be the first country in the world to hold such a referendum.

The deeply catholic country has had its own cultural views of gay marriage and other issues. For example, homosexuality was de-criminalised only in 1993 and divorce was introduced in 1995. Abortions remain largely prohibited.

As the polls open in a few hours (counting to started on Sunday), I wondered what the result might be. The opinion polls before hand have dropped from 64% in favour of gay marriage (as of December 2012) to a slim 53% in favour this month, so it may not be a cake-walk for the LGBT community in Ireland.

Lets, see what the starts say. I cast a chart with the seed 68:





The ongoing DBA is JU-MA-VE. Jupiter signifies 3 11 at star and 11 at sub levels. Mars signifies 3 11 at sub level and while Venus is not particularly favourable or unfavourable to the result coming in favour of gay marriage. Mostly what I notice is the virtual absence of 6 8 12 that would suggest a vote against it.

I decided to check if this result was validated by the options theory. So I put up two options:

1) Gay marriage will be favoured OR
2) Gay marriage will not be favoured

Ruling planets:
Ascendant sign lord: Sun
Moon star lord: Jupiter (posited in star of Mercury which is retrograde, hence Jupiter ignored)
Moon sign lord: Moon
Day lord: Venus

Sun owns Leo (5), Moon owns Cancer (4), Venus owns Taurus (2) and Libra (7). So the numerical value is: 5+4+2+7=9+9=18=1+8=9

Since options are less than nine and also less than the single digit numerical value of the ruling planets, I will deduct the options from the RP value till I get a remainder which is less than the number of options:

9-2=7-2=5-2=3-2=1

Therefore option 1 is correct, Gay marriage will be favoured in the Irish referendum. This also ties up with the chart reading above. 

1 comment:

  1. My prediction comes correct!

    http://www.theguardian.com/global/live/2015/may/23/counting-underway-for-irelands-referendum-on-marriage-equality

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